@article{unisap:/content/edchange/7/1/EJC31653,
author = "Mendelowitz, Belinda",
title = "Teaching the argumentative essay : what's identity got to do with it?",
journal= "Education as Change",
year = "2003",
volume = "7",
number = "1",
eid = "",
pages = "61-89",
doi = "",
url = "http://journals.co.za/content/edchange/7/1/EJC31653",
publisher = "UNISA Press",
issn = "1682-3206",
type = "Journal Article",
language = "English",
keywords = "",
abstract = "Traditionally, personal and impersonal writing have been treated as being located at opposite ends of the objective / subjective spectrum in school and university based writing courses. However, there is a growing recognition that writers' identities play a significant role in text production, regardless of the genre being produced. In this paper I argue against a rigid divide between personal and impersonal writing and show how writing an argumentative essay can be deeply personal and tap identity issues in powerful ways. I develop this argument by examining the response of a multicultural group of students in a South African context to a local and controversial issue that raged in the South African media in 1999 and 2001.",
}